http://gabrito.com/post/when-installing-mysql-always-set-the-sql-mode Anecdotes on Java, Ruby, Sysadmin, SEO, Design, and Management Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:31:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://gabrito.com/post/when-installing-mysql-always-set-the-sql-mode#comment-1211 Configuring MySQL sql-mode in Ruby on Rails Thu, 08 Jun 2006 03:59:41 +0000 http://gabrito.com/post/when-installing-mysql-always-set-the-sql-mode#comment-1211 [...] In my previous post I wrote about setting MySQL to a stricter sql-mode to make it behave like most other databases, however, I recently ran into a case where I couldn’t set the global sql-mode without breaking some legacy applications. I imagine this is also often the case when you host on a shared server where a global configuration change would be out of the question. I realized I needed to set the sql-mode in my Ruby on Rails project so that no matter where it ran it would get consistent behavior (such as when inserting nulls into non-nullable fields). I did it by reopening the MysqlAdapter class and setting the sql-mode upon connect. To do this add the following to the end of config/environment.rb: [...] [...] In my previous post I wrote about setting MySQL to a stricter sql-mode to make it behave like most other databases, however, I recently ran into a case where I couldn’t set the global sql-mode without breaking some legacy applications. I imagine this is also often the case when you host on a shared server where a global configuration change would be out of the question. I realized I needed to set the sql-mode in my Ruby on Rails project so that no matter where it ran it would get consistent behavior (such as when inserting nulls into non-nullable fields). I did it by reopening the MysqlAdapter class and setting the sql-mode upon connect. To do this add the following to the end of config/environment.rb: [...]

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